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Residents reflect on anniversary of plane crash

One year after a plane crashed into her house in East Palo Alto, Lisa Jones is still unable to repair the home and restore her daycare business while she awaits financial assistance. Photo by Veronica Weber/Palo Alto Online.

Thursday (Feb. 17) marked the first anniversary of the twin-engine Cessna 310R plane crash that knocked out power to Palo Alto and killed three Tesla employees on board: pilot Douglas Bourn, 56, and passengers Brian Finn, 42, and Andrew Ingram, 31.

In this editorial video, East Palo Alto residents reflect on the day the plane crashed in their quiet neighborhood.

Posted by Resident
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Feb 17, 2011 at 4:12 pm

There's a couple of threads about the airport, the families and of course the impact to EPA already.

What I would really like to see is what difference has been made to the disaster response in Palo Alto. If a power pole goes out again, will we be without power for 12 hours ever again? What has been done to our power supply to prevent citywide cuts? Is there any way we can "borrow" power from Mountain View on an emergency basis?